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Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

This looks to be a very good book about the problems of overcriminalization.  "Another overcriminalization book," you wonder.  "Isn't the market saturated?"  No; there will always be a shortage of good books.  I skim all of the books on overcriminalization, and this one is legit.I jumped right into Chapter Six, which discusses lawyers who have been prosecuted for conduct that, at the time of the prosecution, did not seem illegal.  Chapter Six begins with a discussion of Connecticut lawyer Philip Russell.  Russell's client, a church, handed him a hard drive that allegedly contained child pornography.  Had Attorney Russell opened up any images on the hard drive, he'd have been guilty of knowingly possessing child pornography.  Rather than verify that child pornography images were present, he destroyed the hard drive with a hammer...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 14, 2009 (boomark / email).